Loreth Anne White

The Unquiet Bones

Vanessa

"Emotion is not a weakness, Jane. Empathy is not soft. It's what makes us most human. Most strong."

The need to belong is a basic survival instinct more powerful than logic. Biologically it can override the most rational of thinking. 

Just c like the lines in tree trunk, our lives are written into our bones.

We should not be forced to chase closure, she warns. " what we need to find are ways to coexist with our complex feelings, and to always remember that our reactions are completely normal."

We live in a society that places high value on resolving problems, on finding solutions,  on "getting over" things quickly.

The Unquiet Bones

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